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Alameda Corridor : ウィキペディア英語版 | Alameda Corridor
The Alameda Corridor is a freight rail "expressway" owned by the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority that connects the national rail system near downtown Los Angeles, California, to the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, running parallel to Alameda Street. The corridor is considered one of the region's largest transportation projects in the past 20 years.〔 ==Description== The project is notable for the Mid-Corridor Trench, a below-ground, triple-tracked rail line that is long, deep, and wide, shared by the BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad (UP)〔 via trackage rights. The Alameda Corridor allows trains to bypass of early 20th-century branch lines and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's historic Harbor Subdivision along a high-speed grade-separated corridor, built mainly on the alignment of a former Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) line, avoiding more than 200 street-level railroad crossings where automobiles previously had to wait for lengthy freight trains to pass. Many of those same rail lines were inadequately protected with little more than “wigwag” crossing signals dating from the original construction of the lines. One important use of the corridor is to carry cargo containers to and from the ports. The corridor has a maximum speed of .
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